Martin Budak — a project manager from Portland, Oregon
Courtney Smotherman — a student from Maumee, Ohio
Eileen Loechel — an operations manager from River Forest, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,800)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eileen | $1,800 | $2,800 | $7,600 |
$7,000
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W |
| Courtney | $2,400 | $4,800 | $10,400 |
$4,800
3rd place: $1,000 |
$10,400
18 R, 2 W |
| Martin | $3,200 | $6,600 | $16,600 |
$20,801
New champion: $20,801 |
$15,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| 1840 | CELEBRITY TROUBLES | WHICH U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENT? | BUSINESS PEOPLE | RAISE THE FLAG | LOWER THE "BOOM" |
|
$200
[21]
Captain Charles Wilkes spots what will become Wilkes Land, a part of this continent
Antarctica
Courtney
|
$200
[6]
When asked on TV about charges over illegal stock tip-offs, she responded, "I just want to focus on my salad"
Martha Stewart
Eileen
|
$200
[11]
The Federal Railroad Administration
Transportation
Courtney
|
$200
[26]
In 1901 James Dole founded a company in Hawaii to process this
pineapple
Eileen
|
$200
[16]
Seen here is the new flag of the post-Taliban Islamic Republic of this
Afghanistan
Martin
|
$200
[1]
Sickle-shaped weapon of the Australian Aborigines
a boomerang
Eileen
|
|
$400
[22]
The second-deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 317 as it destroys this state's city of Natchez
Mississippi
Courtney
|
$400
[7]
This lead singer of Hole first got in trouble when she stole a Kiss T-shirt as a youngster
Courtney Love
Courtney
|
DD
$200
[15]
Citizenship & Immigration Services
Homeland Security
Eileen
|
$400
[27]
In 2006 he pledged 85% of his shares in Berkshire Hathaway to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(Warren) Buffett
Eileen
|
$400
[17]
Once dominated by numerous city-states, this nation was unified around 1870
Italy
Martin
|
$400
[2]
Enormously popular in the 1890s, this song heardheretakes its name from the first line of its lyrics
"Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Ay"
Martin
|
|
$600
[23]
This big Whig is elected president of the U.S. in November; he enjoyed the job for a short time
Willam Henry Harrison
Eileen
Courtney
Martin
|
$600
[8]
A video of her stealing clothing from Neiman Marcus was ruled inadmissable at her trial
Winona Ryder
Courtney
|
$400
[12]
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
Justice
Eileen
|
$600
[28]
In 1982 this auto executive was tapped to head up a private-sector effort to restore the Statue of Liberty
Iacocca
Martin
|
$600
[18]
Tree's company for this Middle Eastern nation's flag
Lebanon
Courtney
|
$600
[3]
Slang term for a large portable music player
a boombox
Courtney
|
|
$800
[24]
Sir Charles Barry lays the cornerstone for these "Houses" in London
the Houses of Parliament
Martin
|
$800
[9]
By 1970, this former Harvard professor & '60s psychedelic guru was on the run & living as a fugitive in Algeria
Timothy Leary
Eileen
|
$600
[13]
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations
State Department
Courtney
|
$800
[29]
He started his company in 1984, building & selling computers out of his dorm at the University of Texas
(Michael) Dell
Martin
|
$800
[19]
The current flag of this former British Crown colony is seen here
Hong Kong
Courtney
|
$800
[4]
In 2006 the Census Bureau noted that these people started turning 60 at a rate of 8,000 a day
the baby boomers
Martin
|
|
$1,000
[25]
Britain issues this "dark" postage, the world's first stamp
the Penny Black
|
$1,000
[10]
This German tennis star was sentenced to 2 years probation for his failure to pay millions of euros in taxes
Boris Becker
Martin
|
$800
[14]
The Bureau of Land Management
the Interior
Eileen
|
$1,000
[30]
Ty Warner worked for Dakin before starting his own company & introducing this line of small plush toys in 1993
Beanie Babies
Eileen
|
$1,000
[20]
Two-word name of the U.S. Pacific territory whose flag is seen here
American Samoa
Courtney
|
$1,000
[5]
Bob Geldof headed up this band of rock & roll rodents
The Boomtown Rats
Martin
|
| LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS | AT THE MOVIES | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. | IT'S ALL ACADEMIC | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS | CONSUMER REPORTS |
|
$400
[21]
Throughout the decade, he cranked out sequels like "Ozma of Oz"
(Frank) Baum
Martin
|
$400
[16]
Buddy Love was the suave alter ego of this title "professor" played by Jerry Lewis
The Nutty Professor
Courtney
|
$400
[6]
A state capital:"Holy Faith"
Santa Fe
Courtney
|
$400
[1]
Paul Rudolph, longtime head of Yale's School of this, designed the building that houses it
Architecture
Courtney
|
$400
[26]
"JFK" director & the deciphering rock found near Rashid, Egypt
Oliver & Rosetta Stone
Eileen
|
$400
[11]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew enlightens us from the Consumer Reports photography lab in Yonkers, NY.) To judge digital prints, Consumer Reports simulates the bluish color temperature of daylight with a setting of 5000 K, the "K" standing for this
kelvin
Eileen
|
|
$800
[22]
Also in the title, it's the last word of the Joseph Conrad tale about the mysterious Mr. Kurtz
darkness
Courtney
|
$800
[17]
Diane Keaton succumbs to a mysterious murderer in this morbid 1977 study of the singles-bar scene
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Eileen
|
$800
[7]
A state:"Flowery"
Florida
Martin
|
$800
[2]
She left her D.C. job & boss Clarence Thomas to teach at the U. of Oklahoma but returned to do some testifying
Anita Hill
Courtney
|
$800
[27]
A 21st century British P.M. & a U.S. female speed-skating gold medalist
Tony & Bonnie Blair
|
$1,200
[13]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew is a (child safety) gate crasher at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, NY.) Child safety gates get both the dynamic test & this opposite type with a six letter name that uses 100 pounds of horizontal force for 10 seconds
static
Courtney
|
|
$1,200
[23]
Date in 1900 on which Thomas Hardy wrote, "The land's sharp features seemed to be / The century's corpse"
December 31st
Eileen
|
$1,200
[18]
Don Johnson & a talking pooch were the stars of this 1975 film based on a Harlan Ellison story
A Boy and His Dog
|
$1,200
[8]
A border city:"The Passage"
El Paso
Martin
|
$1,200
[3]
In 1902 this Princeton professor became the first layman president of the school; he'd later go into politics
Woodrow Wilson
Eileen
|
$1,200
[28]
Famed director of "Sweeney Todd" on Broadway & Haitian capital
Hal & Port Au Prince
Eileen
|
$1,600
[14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in Consumer Reports' anachoic chamber in Yonkers, NY.) Measurements at 416 points test speakers with this type of noise, a wide band signal; its name comes from being halfway between red & white noise
pink noise
Courtney
|
|
DD
$2,000
[24]
1903 Irish literary works included Synge's "In the Shadow of the Glen" & this poet's "In the Seven Woods"
(William Butler) Yeats
Eileen
|
$1,600
[19]
In a tour-de-force performance, he played 8 different roles in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
Sir Alec Guinness
Eileen
|
$1,600
[9]
A California city:"The Cats"
Los Gatos
Eileen
Martin
|
$1,600
[4]
This 3-named woman who wrote 2005's "Missing Mom" has found time to teach at Princeton since 1978
Joyce Carol Oates
|
$1,600
[29]
Highest Alpine peak & the Robert Mondavi white wine you might drink there
Mont & Sauvignon Blanc
Eileen
|
DD
$2,000
[12]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through the Consumer Reports stroller testing lab in Yonkers, NY.) At Consumer Reports, strollers take 50,000 bumpy rolls to test durability; then plastic gets checked for this weakness in material resulting from stress, from the French for "tire"
fatigue
Martin
|
|
$2,000
[25]
Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk
the octopus
Courtney
|
$2,000
[20]
This director of 1931's "Frankenstein" was the subject of the film "Gods and Monsters"
James Whale
|
$2,000
[10]
A western state:"Snow Covered"
Nevada
Martin
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1954 Cambridge appointed this children's author as a professor of Medieval & Renaissance literature
C.S. Lewis
Courtney
|
— |
$2,000
[15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew winds up the category on KP duty at the dishwasher at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, NY.) The government gives a star for this type of efficiency; Consumer Reports washes dirtier loads, so you know when they rate a machine efficient, it can also perform
energy efficiency
Martin
|
Part of the 4th-most populous country, it's the world's most populous single island with about 120 million people
Java